The South African Cabinet has approved the South African Renewable Energy Masterplan (SAREM) for implementation, targeting energy security and broader industrial growth. The plan seeks to address challenges associated with local capacity, infrastructure and investment by providing a roadmap for developing renewable energy and battery storage technologies. For investors, the …
Apart from that, the state government has also planned to spend Rs 150 cr on generation, according to the first supplementary budget of the state govt Just before the national election year, the Nitish Kumar led Bihar Government has decided to put major emphasis on renovation of the rackety power …
Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Thursday cleared the proposal for public private partnership (PPP) model in power transmission projects of UP Power Transmission Corporation Limited (UPTCL). The corporation would now be able to call for competitive tariff based bidding for such projects. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired …
The Ministry of Water and Power of the Government of Pakistan has developed an ambitious power policy to support the current and future energy needs of the country. This bold strategy will set Pakistan on a trajectory of rapid economic growth and social development. Simultaneously, it will address the key …
Announces procurement tariff of Rs 4.15 per unit, exemption from electricity duty. Gujarat government on Thursday announced a new wind energy policy, fixing new procurement tariff and exempting wind energy from electricity duty. The new wind energy policy got nod from the state cabinet today, state energy minister Saurabh Patel …
BPC: After being delayed by more than a year, the Bhutan Power Corporation (BPC) yesterday finally put in place the final link connecting the western and eastern transmission grids and making it one for the whole country. “By 9am last morning, the grid was connected,” the director of BPC, Gem …
Wind Power as an energy source is a non-polluting, environment-friendly, reasonably priced energy with shorter project gestation period. State of Gujarat recognizing the need for long term energy security in current scenario of volatile fossil fuel costs, global warming & climate change has been promoting wind power generation in the …
Centre approves additional fund of Rs 400 cr for rail projects in NE Taking note of the time overrun of national projects in the northeast, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked Power Minister Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia to take steps to expeditiously complete the hydropower projects in the region. In …
The Central Commission, as a consequence of its roles for market development under section 66 of the Electricity Act, 2003 has created a market framework renewable energy certificates and notified the CERC (Terms and Conditions for recognition and issuance of Renewable Energy Certificate for Renewable Energy Generation) Regulations, 2010 (hereinafter …
Environment ministry clears projects, even those rejected earlier, at an unprecedented rate The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) seems to be in a rush to give clearances to development projects. Since January this year, MoEF has given green signal for forestland diversion at an unprecedented rate. It has …
The Supreme Court has admitted the Narendra Modi government’s plea seeking to levy a green cess on every unit of conventional electricity generated in the state in a bid to generate funds to promote clean energy. Levy of such cess was opposed by major industrial players of the state, including …
The government has put 23 big-ticket power projects, which were stalled for want of fuel supply linkages and environmental clearances on fast track. These projects are estimated to generate 23,000 MW of power capacity across the country. In addition, over 1600 km of power transmission lines in central India have …
The objective of this report is to evaluate Karnataka’s current and future power position till the year 2021-22. This report will provide a diagnostic analysis of the issues in State’s power sector and discuss options to address them. Specifically, the study seeks to estimate the likely electricity demand for the …
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) released its annually published report titled "Growth of Electricity Sector in India from 1947-2013", which presents a comprehensive picture of the growth of the electricity sector, in terms of addition of generation capacity by various sectors in different categories, across the twelve plans period. The …
Opposing Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath’s push for a vertical growth in the city, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today said she won’t allow the construction of high-rise buildings as long as she is ‘alive’. “I agree with you that eventually perhaps Delhi will need high-rise buildings. But it will …
Committee favours formula to enable generators recover variation in fuel and power purchase cost A high-level advisory panel on power sector, led by power minister Jyotiraditya, on Wednesday discussed possible amendments to the Electricity Act and made various suggestions, including mechanism to pass through higher fuel costs to consumers. According …
New Delhi : Almost a year since the two-day outage across north India, power ministry has set an ambitious target of building the world’s largest transmission network spanning across 1,40,000 circuit kilometres by 2017 when the 12th Plan period ends. “We have an ambitious plan in the transmission sector in …
The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) and the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam have an ambitious plan worth Rs 280 crore to strengthen the power transmission and distribution system in Hisar district wherein nine substations will be set up and the capacity of five others will be augmented. The plan …
Small hydro power projects which is considered as an alternative to medium and large power projects built alongside big dam in Uttarakhand and elsewhere in the country are not environment friendly, says Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Experts at a conference in the Capital said that the the power …
Decks have been cleared for the signing of a Project Development Agreement (PDA) for the execution of a 900-MW Arun-III project with the Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) for setting up a subsidiary in Nepal. SJVN Arun-III Power Development Pvt Ltd has been registered with the Company Registrar of Nepal …
Ministry of Power vide letter No. 20/13(4)2009‐APDRP dated 26th December, 2012 constituted a Committee to review the Functional Specifications of Low Cost Single Phase Smart Meters framed by an earlier Committee. The committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Chairperson, CEA with Chief engineer (Distribution Planning & Development) as …
